Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palace of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination and without pity. — Lucy Parsons

When the reaction to the police penning demonstrators in and macing them, punching demonstrators in the face, and generally using disproportionate violence to break up peaceful protests is something stronger than outraged youtube videos, let’s talk about “class warfare”. Until then, it’s just business as usual. (By which I mean, of course, asymmetric warfare waged from above, which doesn’t count because dirty hippies deserve what they get.)

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we’re going down a dangerous road here, no doubt about it

the sad thing is that usually the government prevails in this kinds of conflicts